Part III Reading Comprehension (40minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required
to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following
the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each
choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter
for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not
use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
French fries, washed down with a pint of soda, are a favorite part of fast-food
lunches and dinners for millions of American youngsters. But ___36___ a cue from
health experts, a group of 19 restaurant companies are pledging to offer
1 I． Reading comprehension（2’ x 20=40’）
Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some
questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C,
and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Passage One
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.
When school was out, I hurried to find my sister and get out of the schoolyard before
seeing anybody in my class. But Barbara and her friends had beaten us to the playground
entrance and they seemed to be waiting for us. Barbara said, ―So now you’re in the A class.‖
She sounded impressed. ―What’s the A class?‖ I asked. Everybody made superior yet faintly
envious giggling sounds. ―Well, why did you think the teacher moved you to the front of the
room, dopey? Didn’t you know you were in the C class before, way in the back of the room?‖
四级阅读理解练习（答案加解析）第62篇
African elephants have been slaughtered at alarming rate over the past decade, largely because they are the
primary source of the world's ivory. Their population has been dwindled from 1.3 million in 1979 to just 625,000
today, and the rat
African elephants have been slaughtered at alarming rate over the past decade, largely because they are the
primary source of the world's ivory. Their population has been dwindled from 1.3 million in 1979 to just 625,000
today, and the rate of killing has been accelerating in recent years because many of the older, bigger tusked
animals have already been destroyed. "The poachers now must kill times as many elephants to get the same
quantity of ivory," explained Curtis Bohlen, Senior vicepresident of the World Wildlife Fund.
Though its record on the environment has been spotty so far,the government last week took the lead in a major
【阅读练习】What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel 1 about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we strangely enjoy junk food. We’re 2 with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity(肥胖). Perhaps the 3 to this ambivalence(矛盾情结) lies in our history. The first Europeans came to this continent searching for new spices but went in vain. The first cash crop(经济作物) wasn’t eaten but smoked. Then there was Prohibition, intended to prohibit drinking but actually encouraging more 4 ways of doing it. The immigrant experience, too, has been one of inharmony. Do as Romans do means eating what “real Americans”eat, but our nation’s food has come to be 5 by imports—pizza, say, or hot dogs. And some of the country’s most treasured cooking comes from people who arrived here in shackles. Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation’s defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sitins at southern lunch counters. It is integral to our concepts of health and even morality whether one refrains from alcohol for religious reasons or evades meat for political 6 But strong opinions have not brought 7 . Americans are ambivalent about what they put in their mouths. We have become 8 of our foods, especially as we learn more about what they contain. The 9 in food is still prosperous in the American consciousness. It’s no coincidence, then, that the first Thanksgiving holds the American imagination in such bondage(束缚). It’s what we eat—and how we 10 it with friends, family, and strangers—that help define America as a community today.
